[Coco] 86-87 GIME chip detect challenge
Darren A
mechacoco at gmail.com
Sat Dec 7 12:16:32 EST 2013
On Sat, Dec 7, 2013 at 9:35 AM, John Kowalski wrote:
> Hi Robert & Nick,
>
> It actually works out quite well and depending what you set the timer
> to the difference between both GIME versions is pretty significant.
> Some of my demos/programs did this to check which GIME was there (it
> could also tell you if it's running on an emulator if the emulator's
> timing is not entirely faithful to a real CoCo3.)
> <snip>
Cool! Now how about a way to detect if you're running on a CoCo 1 or a
CoCo 2, or more specifically whether or not a SALT chip is present?
Darren
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